CO2 is apparently a groupedData object; the formula attribute is described by Pinheiro and Bates as a 'display formula'.
Perhaps reference to the nlme package's groupedData help would be informative? >>> "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16/07/2007 16:18:37 >>> Yes. That's what I was referring to. On 7/16/07, Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16-Jul-07 14:42:19, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Note that the formula uptake ~. will do the same thing so its > > not clear how useful this facility really is. > > Hmmm... Do you mean somthing like > > lm(uptake ~ . , data=CO2[,i]) > > where i is a subset of (1:4) as in my code below? In which case > I agree! > > Ted. > > > > > > On 7/16/07, Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 16-Jul-07 14:16:10, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> > Following up on your comments it seems formula.data.frame just > >> > creates > >> > a formula whose lhs is the first column name and whose rhs is made > >> > up > >> > of the remaining column names. It ignores the "formula" attribute. > >> > > >> > In fact, CO2 does have a formula attribute but its not extracted by > >> > formula.data.frame: > >> > > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > uptake ~ conc | Plant > >> >> formula(CO2) > >> > Plant ~ Type + Treatment + conc + uptake > >> > >> Indeed! And, following up yet again on my own follow-up comment: > >> > >> library(combinat) > >> > >> for(j in (1:4)){ > >> for(i in combn((1:4),j,simplify=FALSE)){ > >> print(formula(CO2[,c(5,i)])) > >> } > >> } > >> uptake ~ Plant > >> uptake ~ Type > >> uptake ~ Treatment > >> uptake ~ conc > >> uptake ~ Plant + Type > >> uptake ~ Plant + Treatment > >> uptake ~ Plant + conc > >> uptake ~ Type + Treatment > >> uptake ~ Type + conc > >> uptake ~ Treatment + conc > >> uptake ~ Plant + Type + Treatment > >> uptake ~ Plant + Type + conc > >> uptake ~ Plant + Treatment + conc > >> uptake ~ Type + Treatment + conc > >> uptake ~ Plant + Type + Treatment + conc > >> > >> opening the door to automated fitting of all possible models > >> (without interactions)! > >> > >> Now if only I could find out how to do the interactions as well, > >> I would never need to think again! > >> > >> best wishes, > >> Ted. > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > >> Date: 16-Jul-07 Time: 15:40:36 > >> ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 16-Jul-07 Time: 16:13:15 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use, co...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel